Word: metzing
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...proved so successful that the way was paved for others, including windows of Jean Bazaine and Fernand Léger at Audincourt, and Matisse's chapel at Vence. Today the stained-glass revival is sweeping into scores of medieval churches, most notably the famed cathedrals at Beauvais and Metz...
...discomfort of appearing as a lecturer, the painter had to interrupt a number of projects he had been working on at his studio on the French Riviera, including sets and costumes for the ballet Daphnis and Chloe, illustrations for the book version and new stained-glass windows for Metz's 13th century cathedral, damaged by Nazi bombs. But to Marc Chagall, all this did not seem enough. "It seems to me that I am just beginning," he said. "It seems that I have done very little in life...
...northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...their mountain home. Let them take away our plows and our stock, if that is the trouble, but leave us here even if we must starve to death." "They can throw me in jail if they like," said his young assistant chieftain, "but I won't go to Metz...
Next day, with a lawyer on hand to advise them, the Mamatola elders held a brief council meeting and told the government men firmly: "We won't go." But their victory, if such it was, was certain to be short-lived. "The transfer of the tribe to Metz," said an official announcement from the government at Pretoria that night, "has been abandoned for the time being, but we are determined to move the Mamatola out in the shortest possible time...